Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

We understand that Lord Rothschild was badly shaken last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist … Read more

Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] of the Exmouth coroner that Moyle had been unlawfully killed. The Sunday Times report (1 March 1998) on this managed not to mention the role of British embassy staff in Santiago in spreading smear stories about Moyle’s death being the result of autoerotic asphyxiation. Was Moyle was working for British intelligence, as a part […]

JFK: Oswald? Which one?

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy Factor’s ‘confession’, as the source of a claim about the identity of the man impersonating Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City – but doesn’t mention Loy Factor around whom the book is built. On p.812 Armstrong tells us: ‘Some researchers speculate that the man […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] ever close on the Godson family who have featured regularly in Lobster over the years? Father of the clan, Joe, was Hugh Gaitskell’s ally at the US embassy and in an active retirement from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] a conviction for Oliver North). It took the CIA 13 months longer than Ace Hayes to place an order for this database, and it took the Soviet embassy 8 months longer than the CIA. Who’s this Ace guy from Portland? (By 1994 Ace had become a member of the advisory board at Public Information […]

Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] went in this period is not yet clear. While Martin Webster alluded in July 1984 to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the Libyan embassy for fund-raising in February 1984, he never produced any solid proof.(24) The death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher would have closed off that avenue, and what were […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But … Read more

Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 […]

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the darkest corners of the US military-industrial-complex, they decide to contact the KGB?)The KGB officer there, Kostikov – yes, the man who met Oswald in the Soviet embassy – said that it would not be possible to give Garrison’s inquiry the KGB file on Oswald but hinted that something might turn up from an […]

Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility of converting military hardware to a non-lethal capability. In 1991 Janet Morris issued a number of papers giving more detailed […]

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